It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
Kay Granger
Recitation: by Male by Female
For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.
Jessica Williams
ConfidenceJourneyMeDestination
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
John Burroughs
FamilyBirdsRareUsSeemsExotic
The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.
MF Doom
CharacterStyleMeWritingStory
I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.
Stephen Frears
TimeMeAmericaHollywoodBecome
Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it's not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer.
Steve Ballmer
WorkGreatYearBackPlaceCount
The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!
Tommy Lee
HeartBrokenDieTraditionInjuries
The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
Roberto Cavalli
PeopleThinkingFamousYouKindUp
I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.
Mary Steenburgen
LoveI AmEnoughLuckyTakeJobs
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
AgeSpecializationTheaterLudicrous
I may appear to be full of myself because I always want better.
Mohammed VI of Morocco
MyselfBetterWantAlwaysMayFull
I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.
Mitt Romney
LoveBestForwardPersonPresident
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
Derek Walcott
HistorySugarOverAbandonedRuins
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